Amb. (Ret.) Rastislav Káčer
President and Chairman of the Board, Slovak Atlantic Commission

Amb. Káčer was elected the President of the Slovak Atlantic Commission, a non-governmental organization in July 2008 after completion of his five-year term in Washington D.C. as the Ambassador of Slovakia to the United States. Between 1994 and 1998 he served at NATO Headquarters in Brussels and on this return from Brussels became head of Policy Planning Staff and the Director General for Security Policy and Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry. In 2001 he became the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence responsible for the negotiation and accession process of Slovakia to NATO.

 

Milan Ježovica
State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic

Mr. Ježovica has been the State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since July 2010. Prior to this assignment, he was the international policy analyst of the think tank MESA 10. As a deputy head of the mission at the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in the USA, in 1999 – 2003, he contributed to the accession of the Slovak Republic to OECD, NATO and European Union. In 2003 – 2007 he was the advisor on the foreign policy of the Prime Minister at that time, Mikuláš Dzurinda. He represented Slovak Republic in the EU, NATO, UN, CE and the OSCE as well as the European Court for Human Rights.